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Sunday, November 20, 2011

1. The purpose of a dummy activity in an activity-on-arrow diagram is to: [A]Identify a task that could be replaced by another. [B]Take the slack time into account. [C]Show a task that is not necessarily needed. [D]Denote a milestone. [E]Show a dependency relationship.

2. When planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling a project an important human resources skill or ability would be [A]Building multi-disciplinary teams [B]Managing conflict [C]Communicating orally and in writing with all levels of personnel [D]Involving senior management [E]All are important

3. Which is not a negotiation tactic? [A]Imposing deadlines [B]surprises [C]person with authority is absent [D]reasoning together [E]all are negotiations tactics

4. Which of the following is referred to as sunk cost: [A]management reserve [B]contingency fund [C]cost budgeted for construction under water [D]expended funds over which there is no further control [E]forecasted budget over-runs

5. A project manager believes that modifying the scope of the project may provide added value for the customer. The project manager should: [A]Change the scope baseline [B]Prepare a variance report [C]Call a meeting of the configuration control board [D]Change the project's objectives [E]Postpone the modification until a separate enhancement project is funded after this project is completed according to the original baseline

6. As a project is carried out and slack time is consumed on individual tasks, the slack left over for the remaining tasks is: [A]Insignificant. [B]Reduced. [C]Unchanged. [D]Increased. [E]Doubled.

7. Group brainstorming encourages all of the following except: [A]Team building [B]Uninhibited verbalization [C]Decision making [D]Analysis of alternatives [E]Convergent thinking

10. There are hard causes of conflict (e.g. conflicting schedules) and soft causes. Soft causes are as important as hard causes. Soft causes include diversity of disciplinary expertise, _____, and the project manager's power of reward and punishment. [A]Performance tradeoffs [B]Ambiguity of roles [C]Administrative procedures [D]Determining earned value [E]

11. Which of the following is referred to as payback period: [A]the number of periods required to recover the initial investment [B]the rate of return on the investment [C]the number of periods required to bring project cost back to the original budget, based on current performance [D]loan payment schedule [E]None of the above

12. Which one of the following is not an acquisition method? [A]advertising [B]invitation [C]negotiation [D]purchase [E]all are acquisition methods

13. At least _____of the cost of quality are the direct responsibility of management. [A]0.25[B]0.85[C]0.5[D]1[E]0.33

14. Fast tracking means to: [A]Speed up a project through parallel tasks. [B]Swap one task for another. [C]Reduce the number of tasks if possible. [D]B and C. [E]None of the above.

15. Formal written correspondence is mandated in which of the following situations: [A]Product undergoes casual in-house testing [B]Client requests additional work not covered under contract [C]Project manager calls a meeting [D]B and C only [E]None of the above